science
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Dr. Frank Frizelle has operated on countless patients in his career as a colorectal surgeon. But there’s one case that stayed with him. In 2014, he was treating a woman in her late 20s suffering from bowel cancer—already a rare situation, given her age. But it became even more unusual when her best friend visited…
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Type: Full-TimePosted: 02/07/2025Category: Liberal Arts Deans; +1 Diversity Western Connecticut State University Macricostas School of Arts & Sciences Assistant Dean Western Connecticut State University is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for an Assistant Dean for the Macricostas School of Arts & Sciences. WCSU is committed to enhancing our diverse university community by actively encouraging people with…
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Type: Full-TimePosted: 02/08/2025Category: Science Deans Location: Nashua Job Type: Full-Time Job Number: 202300094 Division: Division of Arts and Sciences Description Rivier University invites applications for a newly established position: Director of Science. This is a 10-month, full-time faculty member in the Division of Arts and Sciences who is responsible for teaching and administrative work with a twelve-credit annual teaching load. The director will report…
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Poland plans to launch a series of military observation satellites next year, a deputy defence minister announced yesterday. “Next year, as the Ministry of Defence and the Polish Army, we want to put our first Polish satellites into orbit,” Cezary Tomczyk told a news briefing. Poland intends to acquire a satellite system equipped with radar…
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Nigerian scientists and researchers were not able to win the sum of N36 million offered by the Federal Government as reward for discovering cures for COVID-19 and Lassa Fever, checks have revealed. The prize was announced on February 13, 2020, by then Minister of Science and Technology (now Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology), Dr…
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A pond in Hawaii has mysteriously turned bright pink – with experts voicing concerns about the bizarre phenomenon. Curious onlookers have been flocking to the pond after images first appeared on social media. Volunteers at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, some of whom have been around the water for 70 years, say…
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You’ve heard of the Nobel Prize but what about its sister award, the Ig Nobel Prize? The 33rd Ig Nobel Prize awarded the most bizarre scientific achievements of this year, from dead spider robots to licking rocks. A parody of the very serious prizes named in honour of scientist and engineer Alfred Nobel, 10 spoof…
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Problems of scientific freedom and responsibility are not new; one need only consider, as examples, the passionate controversies that were stirred by the work of Galileo and Darwin. In our time, however, such problems have changed in character, and have become far more numerous, more urgent and more complex. Science and its applications have become…
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Genomic testing is one method your doctor can use to predict how your cancer will grow and which treatments might work best against it. It’s sometimes called “DNA sequencing.” The test looks at all your genes rather than a specific one. Genes are pieces of DNA that hold the codes for making proteins — the…
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A law passed on April 1 2005 will have life-changing consequences for families across the UK from next year. Anyone conceived from a donated sperm, egg or embryo from that day onward can find out the identity of their donor parents once they reach 18. This means that starting from late 2023, there could be…
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What is baldness? Baldness is hair loss, or absence of hair. It’s also called alopecia. Baldness is usually most noticeable on the scalp, but can happen anywhere on the body where hair grows. The condition is more common in men than in women. What causes baldness? Hair loss is believed to be caused by a…
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Scientists in Canada have 3D-printed viable human testicular cells that they hope will eventually yield sperm from patients with forms of infertility that currently cannot be treated. The team at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver has been using a 3D bioprinter to create life-size models of human seminiferous tubules – the structures inside…
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A cluster of stars in their several millions form a vast collection of gyrating system called Galaxy (Ukaegbu 1998). So, we can say, a Galaxy is a huge collection of millions of stars, together with gas and dust held together by gravitational attraction. Our Solar system belongs to the galaxy called the Milky Way Galaxy,…
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There is enough evidence about UFOs that “you can’t really ignore it” anymore, former British Defense Ministry official Nick Pope said on Sunday. Speaking on John Catsimatidis’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show on AM 970 in New York, Pope said “there has been an increased number of cases where not only has the radar tracked these objects performing…
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CLIMATE change is a chronic challenge – it is here now, and will be with us throughout this century and beyond. As the US government’s National Climate Assessment report made clear, it’s already affecting people throughout the United States and around the world. Warmer temperatures are making heat waves more intense, with harmful effects on human health. More intense rainfall and higher…
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On 11 February, the United Nations and global partners, including women and girls, marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why does it matter? Recent studies suggest that 65 per cent of children entering primary school today will have jobs that do not yet exist. While more girls are attending school than before, girls are…
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